Michael Bloomberg finished his term as New York City's mayor at the end of 2013 and, despite having promised to dedicate his life to philanthropy, in September 2014 said he would return to run financial news and information company Bloomberg LP at the start of 2015. He owns 88% of the firm he founded, which in 2014 had $9 billion in revenues. He was born in Boston and has degrees from Johns Hopkins

and Harvard Business School. He got his start on Wall Street in 1966 in an entry level job at investment bank Salomon Brothers and rose to become head of equity trading and then head of information services, before being let go in 1981 when the firm was acquired. That year, along with Tom Secunda, Chuck Zegar, and Duncan MacMillan, he founded Bloomberg LP, which sold its first financial information systems to Merrill Lynch. He remains an active philanthropist and has given away $3.8 billion, including $100 million to the Gates Foundation to help eradicate polio and $1 billion to his alma mater Johns Hopkins. In early 2014, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon appointed him special envoy for cities and climate change.

Michael Bloomberg, Donna Karan and Lise Evans gathered a stellar group together Wednesday night to celebrate the growing movement to save American lives from gun violence. Special guests included Mark Kelly and Gabrielle Giffords, whose attempted murder in 2011 by a gun wielding Jared Lee Loughner in a parking lot shook the nation.

Mayor de Blasio’s initial comments that were perceived, and rightly so, to be sympathetic to protestors certainly precipitated the disproportionate reaction from the police when they turned their backs on the mayor during his speech at Madison Square Park a police graduation, a move that was not read »

November marks the season when high school students plug away at their college applications, and executives draw up business plans for the coming year. It’s a time when thoughts about the future dominate conversations from the dinner table to the Board Room. Yet despite age gaps between college students and CEO’s, these disparate groups share read »

Election night is always exciting. Even when polling has predicted the overall outcome well before November 4th arrives, there are always upsets and victories across the nation that make staying up until the bitter end worth it.

I’m sure that this year will be the same. There are key races I’ve been following – in the Senate and read »

The box that has housed the Wu-Tang Clan’s secret album for much of the past year recently arrived at MoMA PS1 in Queens, carried by a white-gloved porter and flanked by security guards–but it almost didn’t make it through customs. read »

Asia has a record number of billionaires on the new Forbes Billionaires List out yesterday, a sign of great prosperity. Yet many pillars of the Asian business landscape are now in their twilight years. Among them, Asia’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, is 86.

What are the risks involved when great wealth and power pass from one generation to read »

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey was threatened by supporters of the Islamic State, raising the issue of how social media can be used both to liberate the oppressed and to spread fear and messages of terror. read »